Beware: man-earting escalators at Davis Square T

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

Today I saw a second person who's shoe was sucked into the escalator when he was taking it into the T station -- the other person was about a week ago.  Is this a common occurance?

Comments

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago, the elevators at Porter killed a guy, so it could have been worse.

(No, I'm not making that up! Circumstances were that he passed out dead drunk on the long one up and then the pull-cord on his hoodie got sucked into the mechanism and choked him to death before anyone could cut him loose.)

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

Isadora Duncan meets the Darwin Awards.

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

Perfect. And horrible. both at the same time. :)

[ron_newman]

Elevators, or escalators?

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Eeek! Yes, escalator.

It could probably also happen with an elevator, but since the escalators at Porter are some of the longest ones in America and they're not fast, the possibility of passing out on one is certainly greater than average.